| Conference |
| Type of Publication |
| Actively Monitoring Peers in KAD |
| Title |
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Ernst W. Biersack
Taoufik En-Najjary
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| Authors |
| Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on
Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS), Bellevue, Washington, USA, February 2007 |
| Published in |
| In recent years, a large number of DHTs have
been proposed. However, very few of them have been deployed in
real-life large scale systems. An exception is KAD, a DHT based
on Kademlia that is part of the widely used eMule peer-to-peer
system, which has more than 1.5 million simultaneous users. We
have developed a very fast crawler and explored KAD for more than
a month by crawling part of the KAD ID space, which takes only a
few seconds. We ?nd that there are two classes of peers,
long-lived peers that participate in KAD for weeks and
short-lived peers that remain in KAD no more than few days before
they permanently leave. Most of the peers that join KAD for the
?rst time are short-lived peers. Since inter-session times can be
as large as one week, one needs to crawl KAD for more than a week
to be able to identify and characterize short-lived
peers. |
| Abstract |
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p2p
overlay network
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